Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitor that never so long as I am President of the United States will I condemn millions of men and women to the dry rot of idleness on a dole. . . . I do not have to be told that 5% of the projects are of questionable value. . . . I am proud of the fact that 95% of the projects are good...
From the opening crash of the Kyrie to the contrapuntal splendors of the Sanctus and the flowing tranquillity of the Agnus Dei, choir, soloists and instrumentalists did themselves proud last week, mightily impressed visiting critics with the musical authority of Director Jones. As for Ifor Jones, he has made no secret of his ambition to do in Bethlehem what Leopold Stokowski did in Philadelphia. Stokowski was also a church organist before he took over the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Newton and the trombone solo of Higgenbothem . . . As to Harry James, heard at Adams House last Monday, almost everybody was musically disappointed. James, while having smoothed his style somewhat since last hearing, still plays very stiffly himself and his rhythm section sounds as if it were descended from the proud line of Pinocchio. On slow tunes, things were much better, the band displaying an indifferent Goodman style sweet. However, on the so-called "killer-diller" stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town...
Post readers found the articles sensational; Post editors were proud of their scoop. General Krivitsky told how Stalin had tried to set up a puppet state in Spain, how he had shot his generals on framed evidence furnished by the German Gestapo, how his every political move was directed toward making a deal with Hitler. Although a few informed critics questioned some of General Krivitsky's facts and many open-minded persons questioned his disinterest, no one questioned his identity until last fortnight, when the editors of the Communist New Masses popped out from behind the curtains and. leveling...
Since then Nelson Rockefeller has thought of art, and now thinks of the Museum of Modern Art, as a quality of style that can just as well pervade as it can be at odds with modern commercial society. He is proud of the pioneer work the Museum has done, prouder that "last year our traveling shows were exhibited in over 250 cities and towns. . . ." He admires the great art collectors but has not emulated them. He buys sculpture for his desk (last week he had a woodcarving by William Steig), paintings for his walls, wishes that all men could...